Polymorphic computational system and method in signals intelligence analysis

Abstract

Configuration software is used for generating hardware-level code and data that may be used with reconfigurable / polymorphic computing platforms, such as logic emulators, and which may be used for conducting signals intelligence analysis, such as encryption / decryption processing, image analysis, etc. A user may use development tools to create visual representations of desired process algorithms, data structures, and interconnections, and system may generate intermediate data from this visual representation. The Intermediate data may be used to consult a database of predefined code segments, and segments may be assembled to generate monolithic block of hardware syhthesizable (RTL, VHDL, etc.) code for implementing the user's process in hardware. Efficiencies may be accounted for to minimize circuit components or processing time. Floating point calculations may be supported by a defined data structure that is readily implemented in hardware.

Description

[0001]The present application claims priority, under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), to U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 407,703, entitled “A Device, Methodology and Development Environment for the Modeling of Physical Phenomena Within a Reconfigurable Computational Platform,” filed Sep. 4, 2002, and U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 407,702, entitled “A Device, Methodology and Application Development for Signals Intelligence Using a Reconfigurable Computational Platform,” filed Sep. 4, 2002, the disclosures of which are both hereby incorporated by reference.[0002]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]The present invention relates ge...

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Problems solved by technology

Although the emulator has gained wide acceptance in certain fields (specifically electronic design automation), the full potential for this technology has not yet been reached.

This is partly due to the complexity and difficulty in writing the programs and download files that are necessary for configuring an emulator—those outside of the circuit design art have, until now, simply avoided using the emulator for tasks other than hardware functional and performance verification.

Writing typical computer programs or download files for an emulator takes special skill in computer programming and logic synthesis (such as knowledge of various hardware description languages such as Verilog, Verilog Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and / or Register Transfer Logic (RTL)), and may require significant amounts of time to write.

Many of us, cryptographers included, simply may not have the time or ability to do such coding.

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